Worship Leading to Life and Worship Leading to Death

Those [all] who refuse to worship the true God, as he intended, will receive none of the blessings that he intended, namely, life, but rather will be left with an absence of His knowledge and goodness, yielding all forms of corruption and unrighteousness in such a way that leads to death.

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Romans 1:28-32

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And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God,

The creatures of the creator God, who were created to worship Him, did not worship Him

z God gave them up to a a debased mind

THERFORE, God gave them up to a mind that was less than what he intended (by withdrawing their true knowledge of Him)

to do b what ought not to be done.

He left them with less than what they originally had IN ORDER THAT they might do the very things he never intended to do (that their guilt might be shown in totality

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They were filled

IN OTHER WORDS they become consumed

with all manner of unrighteousness,

AND they are consumed not with righteous things [for only God is righteous], but of every unrighteousness (since they do not acknowledge God)

evil,

AND they are consumed with evil things (as the only God is good)

covetousness,

AND they are consumed with jealousy (as only God can satisfy)

AND they are consumed with bad intent (as only God can intend our good (Roms 8:28))

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They are full of envy,

THE RESULT of being filed with unrighteousness is becoming envious of your neighour (a corrupted heart leading to external consequences)

murder,

AND when you become envious, you give into your desires and take what is not yours

strife,

AND when you have taken unrighteously, you feel guilty for it and will be consumed with anxiety and chaos (lacking in peace)

deceit,

AND when you lack peace and are uncomfortable, you lie to people who see your distress or see your guilt

AND as you lie to people, you seek not their betterment or their good, but your own good and their bad (cover up your lies, perhaps do worse to them than you did to your original neighbour

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They are gossips,

OR THE RESULT can be less overt - corruption of the heart that leads to a cowardly insidiousness, such as speaking of others behind their backs

slanderers,

AND as your heart becomes more corrupt, you speak negatively of these people without justification and without their knowledge

haters of God,

AND because you slander these people, you do not care that they are creatures of God/images of God, and so you hate God himself

insolent,

AND as you hate God and His creatures, you disrespect them

haughty,

AND you act arrogantly

boastful,

AND you see yourself as your own saviour/as the truth

inventors of evil,

AND because you have no God, or because you are your own god, you invent ways to deceive others and continue to deceive yourself

disobedient to parents,

AND you reject wisdom of others that see your path of destruction, especially those who know you best

foolish,

AND the person who rejects wisdom is a fool (Proverbs 12 and 15)

faithless,

AND the fool has no god/God

heartless,

AND the godless have no concern for others

AND no concern for others leads only to self-concern

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Though they know c God’s righteous decree

AND WHEN God gives you up, and you do what is not meant to be done (by becoming unrighteous), despite knowing what is righteous and what God requires of you

that those who practice such things d deserve to die,

IN OTHER WORDS that you know that doing what is unrighteous leads to death

they not only do them

NOT only did they do the things that lead to death

but e give approval to those who practice them.

BUT they also encouraged others do this unrighteousness too, making the spread of evil and death an inevitable consequence for the world

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Logical relationship may also be a concession - even though they know what's right, they partake in the wrong and encourage others to do the same.

Progression because unrighteousness breeds more unrighteousness (corruption follows corruption - a righteous man cannot corrupt a righteous man, only unrighteousness can corrupt), just as righteousness can only seek to cleanse unrighteousness and breed/restore more righteousness

It can be both

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